Dear fatenny,
NOC stated on the envelop is for easy management of applications at the CIO but not for the queue system. The queue is made based on date received but not based on the NOC due to the reason that there is total CAP of 5000 and when it will be FULL, many of the sub-caps will be much lower than the 300 sub-CAP. When you say each NOC takes 300 applications, this is the maximum number one eligible occupation can be filled up but all eligible occupations are not going to be filled up to maximum 300 sub-CAP because of 5000 total CAP limit.
If your understanding is considered right for the sake of discussion, then it is quite possible that at the time of 5000 CAP FULL, application received under NOC 2144 (just for example) on March 15th, 2014 is given PER while application received under NOC 2145 (just for example) on February 15th, 2014 is given PER. In such scenario, applications received under NOC 2145 between February 15th to March 15th, 2015 will be neglected and hence, can't be justified. These applicants may decide to go in the court against CIO for this unjustified action.
fatenny said:
From a senior whose is already a PR. Take a close look at the spreadsheet, also we needed to address our applicatn with NOC stated on the envelope, from that I gather different officers are to handle applicatns based on NOC! Although there is an overall cap, but each NOC take 300 applicants.